DEATH IN THE FIFTH POSITION with Introduction By the Author

Box, Edgar [pseud. of Gore Vidal]

ISBN 10: 0922890609 / ISBN 13: 9780922890606

Published by The Armchair Detective Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1991

About this Item

2nd printing, with complete number line beginning with 2. Originally published in 1952 when Vidal had been blacklisted and needed a new name to write under. A fine, unread copy in dust jacket. Peter Cutler Sargeant III is a NYC press agent hired by the Grand Saint Petersburg Ballet in hopes that he can put a positive spin on the company's celebrated choreographer Jed Wilbur, one time member of the Communist Party. Set during the time of HUAC and the blacklists, Communist ties quickly become secondary to murder, and our PR man finds himself an amateur detective intimately mixed up with various members of the troupe.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: DEATH IN THE FIFTH POSITION with Introduction By the Author
• Publisher: The Armchair Detective Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0922890609
• ISBN 13: 9780922890606
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Later Edition.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • New York City
  • Music
  • Store 11
  • Mystery and Detective

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Synopsis

Soon after Peter Sargeant assumes the public relations duties of a ballet company, his job becomes complicated by anti-Communist pickets and the onstage murder of the leading ballerina

About the Author

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-three novels, five plays, two memoirs, numerous screenplays and short stories, and well over two hundred essays. His United States: Essays, 1952–1992 received the National Book Award.